I am rediscovering an old, briefly popular band that I really really like called Black Lab.
They have a song called "ten million years" and there's a ine from the chorus that I really like...
quote:I love you more than I should I'd wrap my heart in bands of rosewood
but it sounds to me like the choice of rosewood here has some significance. Anyone have any idea what it might be?
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Rose=romance....hart=romance.....
Posted by Sopwith (Member # 4640) on :
Rosewood was often the wood of choice for making vampire-poking stakes...
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
I've come to the conclusion that sometimes instead of having any real meaning, lyrics just rhyme.
Witness Chicago's "25 or 624" or any of the Bob Dylan opus.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sopwith: Rosewood was often the wood of choice for making vampire-poking stakes...
Good golly! I've been using T-Bones. No wonder it hasn't been working very well.
(and why don't we have a fang-graemlin?)
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Rosewood is a beautiful wood, but you have to be careful when working on it. Its sawdust can wreak havok on your lungs. Make sure you wear a mask when working with it.
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
Very expensive?
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Thorns?
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head: Rosewood is a beautiful wood, but you have to be careful when working on it. Its sawdust can wreak havok on your lungs. Make sure you wear a mask when working with it.
If the guy is planning to wrap his heart in bands of rosewood, I would think, medically speaking, that the sawdust in the lungs is not his primary problem.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
quote:Witness Chicago's "25 or 624"
Um, this is in jest?
It's "25 or 6 to 4," as in 3:35 or 3:34--a time of day--or rather, night, in this case.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
I've been waiting for the break of day. And searching for something to say.
I've been sitting cross-legged. On the floor. 25 or 6 to 4.
Oh, thanks, Icky. That makes LOTS more sense now.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
::fiddles with his irony detector::
Hmm . . . :-\
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Rosewood is the wood of choice for high-end solo martial arts weapons. They are solo weapons because a weapon made from rosewood is so expensive that nobody is willing to risk them breaking.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Wasn't there some significance to rosewood in Revelation/Apocalypse? Like, a sign of the apocalypse or something like that?
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
If I were writing pop lyrics, I'd be sure to throw in an obscure reference here and there, so that people could debate what it means and think that I am deep and intellectual-like.
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
It is also a wood of choice for making guitars. So it would make sense that a musician would think of it as a valuable wood.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
It's also the name of a town in Florida where a horrible atrocity took place.
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
And they made a movie about it.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
It apparently corresponds to Queen/Mother goddesses.
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
Is that seriously what 25 or 6 to 4 means?
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Yep.
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
That is SO deep, dude.
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
cool... thanks for all the input... and keep them coming.
It is a wood of choice for music instruments, particularly for fret boards, less so for bodies pf acoustic guitars.
and it is very beautiful...
but I like the vampire one... it fits the mood of the music very well Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Here are the lyrics. You be the judge: deep and meaningful, or just trying to find things that rhyme.
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